Stately - bungalow? Pics...

[Nemesis]

Spotted yesterday:

This started life as a fairly small bungalow... it seems to have just growed...

 

[plumbers mate]

Looks like they don't do drawing either and just use what they happen to see nearest the door in B&Q

 

[Penners]

I feel the faux columns lend a certain je ne sais quoi.

Actually je sais quoi perfectly well, but would probably get the thread deleted if I expressed candid views.

 

[Nimster]

Oh my. That's ... erm... interesting.

Lovely :?

I wonder how dark it is inside now the pergola has been built, and how much darker it will be once it's covered in plants?

 

[Nemesis]

A Russian Vine would do everyone a favour possibly...

 

[Gareth Hughes]

A Russian Vine would do everyone a favour possibly...

"A doctor can bury his mistakes, an architect can only advise his client to plant a vine"
Frank Lloyd Wright

 

[plumbers mate]

Or a row of Leylandii ....

Isn't there a restriction as to how much space you can enlarge a building by (10%?)

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Or a row of Leylandii ....

Isn't there a restriction as to how much space you can enlarge a building by (10%?)

Detached dwelling, not in a conservation area (note, the following is not a full statement of the law and those intending to ruin their homes by the addition of ill-porportioned, vulgar, chavvy nonsenses in the manner shown in the original post are advised to contact their local planning authority for advice)

Your proposals will be permitted development provided:

the resulting building does not exceed the original dwellinghouse PLUS 70 cubic metres or 15% of its volume, whichever is the greater (subject to a maximum addition of 115 cubic metres) ;
any part of the building which is enlarged, improved or altered is not closer to a highway than the original dwellinghouse, unless it will be at least 20 metres from the highway;
the part of the building which is enlarged, improved or altered is not higher than the height of the highest part of the roof of the original dwellinghouse;
the part of the building which is enlarged, improved or altered is not more than 4 metres in height and is within 2 metres of the boundary of the garden of the dwellinghouse (this does not apply to the insertion, enlargement, improvement or other alteration of a window in an existing wall); and
not more than half the area of your garden (excluding the area of the original dwellinghouse) is covered by buildings.

 

[Flyfisher]

For the record, I don't particularly like this building, but then I don't like any bungalows.

However . . . . surely there must be room for all tastes? Presumably the owners really like their home, and who are we to judge? Providing they've complied with all the relevant regulations, they have as much right as anyone to do what they want with their property. Don't they?

We'll be demonising people for their poor grammar next :wink:

 

[Nemesis]

Thye are free of course to do as they wish, within reason, but this is a website about property matters...

 

[AMc]

The original building was hardly a thing of beauty - while it's not to my taste it must be to theirs.
Good luck to them and their unfortunate neighbours.

 

[Nemesis]

I don't think Betjeman would have considered it ghastly good taste...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/betjemanj2.shtml


http://www.maggs.com/title/CL108591.asp

 

[Nemesis]

Inexpensive Progress
Encase your legs in nylons,
Bestride your hills with pylons
O age without a soul;
Away with gentle willows
And all the elmy billows
That through your valleys roll.

Let's say goodbye to hedges
And roads with grassy edges
And winding country lanes;
Let all things travel faster
Where motor car is master
Till only Speed remains.

Destroy the ancient inn-signs
But strew the roads with tin signs
'Keep Left,' 'M4,' 'Keep Out!'
Command, instruction, warning,
Repetitive adorning
The rockeried roundabout;

For every raw obscenity
Must have its small 'amenity,'
Its patch of shaven green,
And hoardings look a wonder
In banks of floribunda
With floodlights in between.

Leave no old village standing
Which could provide a landing
For aeroplanes to roar,
But spare such cheap defacements
As huts with shattered casements
Unlived-in since the war.

Let no provincial High Street
Which might be your or my street
Look as it used to do,
But let the chain stores place here
Their miles of black glass facia
And traffic thunder through.

And if there is some scenery,
Some unpretentious greenery,
Surviving anywhere,
It does not need protecting
For soon we'll be erecting
A Power Station there.

When all our roads are lighted
By concrete monsters sited
Like gallows overhead,
Bathed in the yellow vomit
Each monster belches from it,
We'll know that we are dead.


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From "High and Low" (1966) & "Collected Poems"

© The Estate of John Betjeman

Reproduced by kind permission of John Murray (Publishers).

 

[Penners]

surely there must be room for all tastes? Presumably the owners really like their home, and who are we to judge?

I don't think we're judging - just expressing our views. Or in my case, self-censoring our views!

 

[Nemesis]

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/images/2006/06/09/fiba_commercial_450x250.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/image_galleries/090606_fiba_gallery.shtml&h=250&w=450&sz=38&hl=en&start=11&tbnid=tdep-j8Wqu6K1M:&tbnh=71&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3DBad%2Barchitecture%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

 

[Mark]

From "High and Low" (1966) & "Collected Poems"

© The Estate of John Betjeman

Reproduced by kind permission of John Murray (Publishers).

Nice to see. So many people think copyright doesnt apply on the internet

 

[Nemesis]

Anything posted here is purely for academic research purposes...


http://www.britac.ac.uk/reports/copyright/guidelines.pdf

 

[Flyfisher]

I don't think we're judging - just expressing our views. Or in my case, self-censoring our views!

Indeed. Self-censorship is the mark of a Gentleman.

This whole 'bad design' issue does intrigue me though. Why would anyone deliberately set out to design something badly? Certainly, I can understand a given design not meeting with unanimous approval, but does that make it 'bad design' ? And even if we judge 'goodness' on the basis of popularity, what happens when fashion changes, as it always does? Does this means that a 'good' design can become a 'bad' design or vice versa ?

 

[Nemesis]

Oh - I had always understood getting out of the bath to pee in the lavatory instead was the mark of a gentleman. I stand corrected.


http://www.cabe.org.uk/default.aspx?contentitemid=1346


http://www.cabe.org.uk/AssetLibrary/8125.pdf

 

[Penners]

Anything and everything is an example of bad design.... and good design.

It just depends who's looking at it.

By the way, I have to disagree with your definition of a Gentleman. The correct definition is:-

A gentleman is one who knows how to play the bagpipes - but doesn't.